The Perfect Lover is a lost 1919 silent film drama directed by Ralph Ince and starring Eugene O'Brien. It was produced by Lewis J. Selznick and distributed by Select Pictures. It is based on a short story, The Naked Truth, by Leila Burton Wells, that appeared in Harper's Weekley Magazine.
Réalisé parRalph Ince OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresPolicier ActeursEsmond Knight, Lilli Palmer, Cecil Parker, George Merritt, Sara Allgood, Raymond Lovell Note62% The Merrick gang pull off a diamond robbery and murder a police officer investigating their crimes. A paper with the cryptic writing "AD 1935" is found on the murdered officer's body. Outsmarted by the gang, the police assistant commissioner and Inspector Cardby decide to have Pete Borden, a new recruit who the gang would not know, go undercover and join the gang.
Hopeless but eager would-be private detective Cedric Gull (Hulbert) has just obtained a diploma from a backstreet 'School of Detection' and is keen to put his new qualification to good use. Fortuitously, he happens to stumble across a crime scene at the office of a diamond merchant, who has just been robbed and assaulted and is being tended by his secretary Sylvia (Brook). The police arrive on the scene, but despite Cedric's proud boasts about his sleuthing qualifications, they decline his kind offers of help.